Lyme Regis is a small seaside town which is a popular tourist destination. There has been a town here for 1,000 years or so. Like many of the seaside places we've been on this trip it has streets sloping steeply down to the sea, which was about 10 or 15 minutes walk from our Airbnb. The man who founded Bermuda was once the mayor of Lyme Regis, and various famous people have lived or stayed here including Jane Austen and J R R Tolkien.
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| The Cobb is a massive stone wall to protect a man-made harbour from the sea. |
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| British seaside towns all have these little huts you can hire, to make a cup of tea out of the wind. |
The town mill has been around since the 1300's, and is now maintained in running order as one of the few remaining examples. They still mill wheat and other grains, and sell the flour. The guided tour was given by a very knowledgeable man who explained the whole system to us, and started the mill up from scratch so we could all see it working. He reminded us of the many figures of speech which came from milling, e.g. "grind to a halt", "rule of thumb", "show one's metal", and "run of the mill".
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| The waterwheel inside the town mill. |
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| The town mill running, milling wheat into flour. |
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| Our flat here is on top of the garage. |
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| Fine pumpkins! |
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| Our host said she didn't quite know what to do with these. |
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| Topiary caterpillar? |
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| The huge cliffs at West Bay, as seen in "Broadchurch" on tv. |
